Dr Sue Chadwick

Solicitor, Strategic Advisor, Pinsent Masons

Sue’s background is as a planning solicitor in local government, and she has always combined this with an academic interest in the subject.

As well as more than 20 years of experience as a planning solicitor in the private and public sector Sue has a PhD on the meaning of sustainable development in the National Planning Policy Framework, has written books on neighbourhood planning and planning decisions and published articles in the Journal of Planning and Environmental Law on the Public Sector Equality Duty and planning and AI.

Her current research focus is digital planning. She spent a year as a Research Fellow with the ODI resulting in publication of a report Digital planning and its Implications.

Sue is a member of the London Data Board, and Chair of Business London Data Working Group. She is also a member of Brent Council Data Ethics Board, Profusion Data Ethics Advisory Board and Chair of the RED Foundation Data Ethics Steering Group

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Digital planning in England

Practice Notes

This Practice Note explains how the shift to digital planning in England is being driven by new statutory powers and practice on planning data and digital processes (including under the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023), alongside related regimes on building safety data and access to environmental information. It then considers the wider governance and legal implications of digitisation for the planning system, including human rights, the public sector equality duty, fair decision-making and planning probity, and concludes with the growing role of AI in planning (including the Planning Inspectorate’s requirements on the use of AI in inquiry evidence).

Planning